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Sep. 14, 2026

Big Tech keeps dodging the breakup hammer

Federal judges have twice rejected Trump administration bids to break up Google despite finding it acted as a monopolist, reflecting a long-standing judicial wariness of structural antitrust remedies that experts trace to a history of failed breakups.

Silicon Valley technology companies are surviving government efforts to break them up, even when - as in two lawsuits by the U.S. Department of Justice against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google LLC - judges have concluded that the company acted as a monopolist.

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia became the latest to reject a Trump administration bid to make structural changes on Google when she rejected its motion to force a divestiture of a subsidiary and other proposal...

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